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11/11/2015

“We Are Dreamers!” was a collaboration with Savages’ Jehnny Beth, and Tindersticks’ second single from The Waiting Room
is a duet too. The chamber-pop slow-burn “Hey Lucinda” matches Stuart
Staples’ mannered baritone with Lhasa De Sela’s weary, high-pitched
intonations. Their vocals are cast against an array of rock, folk, and
classical instruments that come and go at surprising, rewarding
intervals. As with “We Are Dreamers!” and every other song on the album,
“Hey Lucinda” arrives with a short film, this one by Rosie Pedlow and
Joe King. The directors explained their creative process to Indie Wire:

When we first heard “Lucinda,” we were struck by the way
the instruments were used to help tell the story. The glockenspiel at
the start reminded us of those wind-up musical Ballerina boxes that
grind to a halt; the lurching rhythms of the backwards strings and steel
drums made us feel a bit drunk. We decided to use camera movement to
echo the toing and froing of the duet, filming from opposite ends of the
street in a series of mini tracking shots. Lhasa’s end would be the
sleepy chalets; Stuart’s would be amusements. We used a camera slider to
repeat the same shot allowing us to layer and cross-fade real time,
slow motion and timelapse seamlessly. We wanted to convey not only
something about the experiential nature of time but also something about
memory and how it fades. We ramped each shot up and down and brought it
to a halt just like a ballerina box and used time-lapse to inject a bit
of “drunkenness” into the image.